friday, november 13, 1981
page 8
daily nebraskan
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By Mary Louise Knapp
Providing information about alternative
forms of government and economic
systems is the main goal of the Young
Socialist Alliance which recently formed a
Lincoln chapter, said Nhry Nell Bockman,
a member of the organization.
Bockman said that growing disillusion
ment with American government and
economics is leading people to consider
socialism as an acceptable alternative.
"Socialism isn't a dirty word in the
United States anymore," she said.
Bockman said interest in the YSA on
the UNL campus has been "overwhelm-
,
ing.
"There's never been a group on campus
that called themselves 'socialists' before,"
she said. "Everyone on campus seems to
want to talk politics with us."
The Lincoln chapter of the YSA, form
ed two months ago, has five registered
members and several members who are un
registered. The group is composed of stu
dents and non-students, Bockman said.
Marxism class
The YSA conducts a six-part class on
the philosophy of Marxism on Saturday
afternoons in the East Union, in addition
to its regular Sunday meetings in the Ne
braska Union.
"I think this class fills a real need,"
Bockman said. "There is so much confus
Sadie Hawkins
The annual Sadie Hawkins Day dance
and skit presentation will be tonight at
7:30 in the East Union Great Plains Room.
Skits run from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. The band
Shootin' from the Hip plays from 9 p.m. to
midnight.
Skits are performed by LiF Abner and
Daisy May candidates from residence halls
and Greek houses, said Jeff Lauber of the
University Program Council. Each candi
date has his group help him perform a skit
in competition for the title of Li'l Abner
or Daisy May, he said. The winners will be
announced during a break at the dance
Motorcycle stolen
A motorcycle worth $650 was taken
from a UNL parking lot sometime between
last Thursday and Tuesday, UNL police
said.
The 1980 blue Honda Passport was
taken from the Area 23 lot west of Harper-Schramm-Smith
Residence Halls. Victoria
Wilcox, 20, of Smith Hall, owns the
Honda.
In other police reports, someone took
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ion about what Marxism really is."
The YSA, along with groups such as Ne
braskans for Peace and the Women's Re
source Center, conducted a vigil and
demonstration against the Reagan admini
stration Saturday during Vice President
George Bush's speech at Pershing Auditor
ium. Jeff Hamill, local YSA coordinator, said
a feeling of alienation from American
government and the desire for change is no
longer limited to a small group of activists
as it was during the 1960s.
Hamill said that with the Reagan ad
ministration's stringent economic politics
threatening the futures of the poor,
workers and the middle class, more and
more people are willing to take the lead in
social struggles.
"There's a lot of talk about America
moving to the right," Bockman said.
"That's not true. Reagan is not represent
ing what the people really want. The
people from the far right have become
more vocal, which is causing the traditional
conservatives to move farther left and look
at the situation."
Bockman said most Americans feel that
their lives can only get worse, especially
economically, under Reagan's policies.
Americans feel their security and civil
rights are being threatened by the govern
ment, he said.
"The far right, Moral Majority types are
the enemies of freedom," she said. "They
dance tonight
later in the evening, and Li'l Abner and
Daisy May will receive a marriage license
certifying their matrimony.
Lauber said the annual East Campus
event is open to all residence halls and
Greek houses. There are four candidates
this year, fewer than in the past. Persons
wanting to participate may sign up as late
as Friday, he said.
The skit performances are free to the
public. There is a fee of $2 for students,
$2.50 for non-students and S3 for couples
for admission to the dance.
from parking lot
down a fire extinguisher from a Selleck
Quadrangle third floor wall and sprayed its
contents on the floor and walls.
Because the chemical contents cause a
cloud of gas, people first thought it was a
fire, police said , but an alarm wasn't turned
in.
The cost of cleanup and refilling the fire
extinguisher wasn't estimated.
The act constitutes criminal mischief.
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are not the majority. They're trying to
impose their views on the vast majority,
which will have nothing to do with it.
"The government encourages this
stuff," she added.
Hamill said that on the surface, political
activism does not seem to have increased
perceptively over the last five years. But
there is a deepening anger toward party
politics and politicians in America today "
he said.
"People don't trust the Democrats or
the Republicans," he said. "They think
politicians are all crooks."
Bockman added that the Socialist Work
ers Party has had more success in getting
on political ballots lately because "people
will sign anything that doesn't say "Repub
lican" or "Democrat."
Reject socialism
Bockman said many people reject social
ism because they associate socialism and
communism with totalitarian governments
such as the Soviet Union's.
Socialism, as explained by Karl Marx, is
in no way related to the sort of govern
ment that the Soviet Union has, she said.
A socialistic system is based on the
needs of its members and the productive
capacity of each person, not on private
capital or a state, she said.
Bockman explained that the Soviet
Union's socialistic government degenerated
into a totalitarian state because of hard-
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Russian Revolution of 1917 and because
the Soviet Union had a history of auto
cratic regimes.
The United States, on the other hand,
would not let a socialistic system slip into
totalitarianism because o its strong demo
cratic traditions, she said.
The present government is posing a
greater threat to the freedom of the Ameri
can people, she said, through domestic
spying by agencies such as the CIA and
FBI.
The YSA brought the CIA, FBI and INS
(Immigration and Naturalization Service)
to trial in March, accusing them of spying
on and harassing members of the Socialist
Workers Party in the United States.
A decision on the lawsuit will be handed
down in about two months, Bockman said.
Bockman said the lawsuit, filed in 1973,
has forced the government to hand over
tens of thousands of documents which
prove that wiretaps, burglaries and other
illegal techniques were used against
members of the party.
During its 40-year investigation of the
Socialist Workers Party and the YSA, the
government could discover no illegal
activity by either group, Bockman said.
A panel discussion on the lawsuit will be
Nov. 30 in the Lincoln YWCA, Bockman
said. State senators, government officials
and the attorney for the Young Socialist
Alliance will be present, she said.
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